Show DISTRESS IN RUSSIA agricultural depression to be investigated by the government correspondence of the associated press st petersburg saturday feb 8 the appointment of a special commission to inquire into the causes and remedies for the terrible condition of agriculture is greeted with a unanimous chorus of approval by the press the commission will be completely dominated by the minister of finance N Doit tc who aa chairman will determine the subjects of inquiry and the witnesses to be ened and will report ne results to the czar besides the ananco minister two of the assistant finance ministers are members of the commission and alie secretary is M chippolla Chip poll nead of the chancellors chanc ellory of this ministry it is characteristic act 01 the political situation that the of and interior which are auy more directly for the well being and po lincol status of alio peasants und tho landed proprietors are represented in the only by iha ministers and one assistant minister tach |